Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-30
TO SWINDLE UNCLE SAM.
Union Pacific Stockholders Have a
Scheme to Abandon tn. Old Main Line

Union Pacific Stockholders Have a
Scheme TO Abandon tn. Old Main Line
to the Government.
A correspondent writing from Lincoln,
Neb., says; There is a very qaiet bat well de-
tined rumor circulating In certain quarters to
the effect that the Union Paci ic stockholders
are playing a pretty deep game with Uncle
sam and are quietly preparing to Surrender
the old Union Pacific main line for the gov
ernment debt and abandon their Omaha aud
Council Bluhs termisus, making the several
branches Of the present Union Pacific, which
are owned 10y tbem independent Of the gov
eminent line, a new system OF lines, with Lin
coln as their eastern terminus. The main
features involved In this plan consist OF
first, a through line from Lincoln TO Denver.
with a connection at Lincoln with the Old
Iowa pool lines, and, second, a linking toge-
ther OF all the present Union Pacific branches
with this Lincoln and Denver line, making
with the Oregon Short Line aid the Denver
and Rio Grande
NEW SYSTEM,
to be called the Lincoln, Denver and Pacific.
This is conducted under cover of the old st.
Joseph and Grand Island railroad. which. Il is
definitely known, Is owned by the old Union
Pacific regime, who have never parted with
control OF the Union Pacific branch lines.
The operations so far consist in hitting un-
der an alias branches OF the st. Joe and Dem
yer from Fairfield, Neb., to Stromsburg,
there connecting with the Union Pacific
branch from Lincoln ulich bacnuae n
trunk line from Lincoln to Fairfield, and
from there to Denver via Alma over a line
now under construction. At Grand Island a
connection Is made by the st. Joe and Grand
Island with the Union Pacific branch lines to
st. Paul, Neb Ord and Loup City, and an
announcement of a new line from David City
to Columbus recently made provides for. a
connection at that point with the Albion,
Cedar Rapids and Norfolk branches. The
line from Valparaiso to Valley junction Is to
EXTEND ACROSS TO BLAIR
to a connection with the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Omaha, who will use the
Jointly with the Lincoln, Denver and
and also furnish them an entrance to
Omaha over their line. The abo ndonment
OF their Omaha and Council Bluffs terminus
is about the natural result Of the building to
OF the Iowa lines, OF which the
Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy and Missouri Pacific are already com
plctcd. The Minneapolis and Omaha, as
sured by the connection above mentioned,
ana the Rock Island and Milwaukee and st.
Paul, making rapid preparations, by the time
congress Is ready to act upon the Union
Pacific matter, these lines will be completed.
LINCOLN, DENVER AND PAcfpIo
will be running and the Union Pacific, rotten
to the core, shorn Of Its branches, and already
Slapped at every vital point by the branches OF
the Iowa roads, 1t will be then ready to tura
over to the government as a white elephant.
This, In brief, Is the substance Of the scheme
against the people, in which the Iowa lines are
parties, their share OF the booty being certain
of the old Union Pac ic territory. The inter-
state law is singularlv favorable to
the accomplishment OF the ruin OF this mag
nihcent property.
EFFECTS or THE NEW Law.
New YORK, April 1a.-The earnings Of
twenty-one roads for the second week In
April have been reported. This is the first
complete week In which railroads have been
operated under the interstate law, and In
which the first unfavorable effects Of the law
were expected to he shown. The total .rn-
iDgs for the second week amounted to ST.
$40 81, against 81, ll6, BOB for the preceding
week, a decrease Of : $500.